Nvidia-backed startup Generalist raises $400M at a $2B valuation in the physical AI race, even as experts and industry leaders warn that allowing a handful of companies to monopolize generalized robotics technology poses serious risks to humanity, prompting calls for open-source collaboration and government accountability.
Generalist AI secures $400 million in new funding, pushing total capital raised past $500 million, as its robots achieve 99% reliability and speeds three times faster than previous benchmarks, signaling a major leap toward commercially viable physical AI.
Nvidia-backed robotics startup Generalist AI raises $400 million in a new funding round led by Radical Ventures, catapulting the company to a $2 billion valuation as it pushes to build advanced AI models that enable robots to tackle increasingly complex real-world tasks.
NVIDIA launches Cosmos 3, the world's first fully open omnimodel capable of natively processing text, images, video, sound, and actions for robotics and autonomous vehicles, while simultaneously unveiling the global Cosmos Coalition to accelerate open world model development across industries.
NVIDIA unveils Cosmos 3, a groundbreaking open world foundation model combining vision reasoning, multimodal generation, and native action output to help robots and autonomous vehicles understand real-world scenarios, already topping multiple benchmarks and available now to developers worldwide.
Nvidia unveils the Vera CPU at Computex 2026, claiming 1.8x faster performance than x86 chips for agentic AI, while launching a full AI stack including the DSX platform, DGX Station desktop supercomputer, and new robotics models — signaling a bold transformation from GPU maker to full-stack AI powerhouse with backing from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Dell.
Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3 at GTC Taipei, a fully open-source omnimodal AI model trained on 20 trillion tokens, 1 billion images, and 400 million videos, designed to advance robotics and physical AI through a new mixture-of-transformers architecture capable of reasoning and generating across text, video, images, sound, and action.
Mistral launches 'Mistral for Industrial Engineering,' a fully integrated AI stack with robotics capabilities, backed by Airbus and BMW partnerships and the acquisition of Austrian startup Emmi AI, targeting design, production, and quality inspection use cases within sovereign enterprise infrastructure.
Figure deploys humanoid robots into Catalyst Brands' retail supply chain, automating physically demanding logistics tasks across JCPenney, Aéropostale, and Brooks Brothers distribution networks, starting in Reno, Nevada.
Runway, now valued at $5.3 billion, is pivoting from AI filmmaking tools to building world models designed to simulate physical environments, targeting transformative applications in robotics, drug discovery, and climate modeling — but faces stiff competition from Google, OpenAI, and compute resource challenges.